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There’s a time in every writer’s life when they so want to
write but something, or many things, hold them back. Every hack looks at this
road block as unfair, and if you’re a perfectionist or a Doer, negative
emotions bubble up to the surface which makes the matter even worse.
Doubt
Fear
Lack of Knowledge/Experience
The Holy Trinity of a thing called Writer’s Block.
If you gain the knowledge and experience and kill the doubt
and bore the fear, you become a prolific writer, and your professional literary
dreams will come true. As long as you acknowledge the existence, and necessity,
of the fourth ingredient…
Hard work.
So many new writers view this profession as completely
romantic. They see Paris in the springtime, erudite conversations in swank
cafes by night. Love making by the Seine and words flowing like champagne as
the after-effect.
Rrright.
Uh-huh.
I’d so make time for those lovely moments, but in between
hacking out four pages of babbling junk I’ll probably delete later, I have to
empty the dishwasher, feed the cats and decide if I have enough upper body
strength to detangle my hair…or change the pajamas I’ve been wearing for the
last three days straight while trying to pen the next literary epic I just know
will come in only second to the Bible for publishing popularity.
Sooo romantic and realistic, yes?
Writing is a journey. It’s a human experience. It’s an
artistic process.
It’s not a destination nor a place where accolades or
approval lie.
It’s a fight with Self and requires the patience of Job to
pull off something the world “might” read while not barfing because of the
read.
It’s a calling. It’s a putting oneself out there to be
critiqued, ridiculed, hated... and loved.
And if the desire has been with you since you can remember,
it’s an “illness” that can never be cured.
So what do you do?
How do you get from desire to doing?
Learn from my mistakes and the pitfalls that have come upon
my writer’s group members of these last ten years, and read STOP Not Writing.
It’s a no-holds-barred layman’s approach to get you away
from the dream and get you doing the work. There is no enabling or flashy buzz
words or intimidating elitist crap. STOP lays down what you need to accept and to
do in order to become a serious wordsmith. No more, no less.
I wrote STOP as the book I wish I’d had when I first
started.
I am this mentor to new writers now that I wish I’d had when
I first started.
You can take a sneak peek at STOP here
to see if it’s something you’d like to read in its entirety or click the book picture if you'd like to purchase STOP now from Amazon books. Each chapter has exercises
that will get you to alter your mindset and eradicate those many avoidance
tricks you’ve applied over the years that have left you with no completed works
and nothing but regrets.
Learn from STOP and start producing now.
What have you got to lose but unfulfilled dreams and empty
notebooks?